tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1434302889299955261.post2659235490013338038..comments2023-07-31T11:01:56.340+01:00Comments on Parrish Lantern's PomesAllSizes: No More Heroes? ( A personal view of John Cooper Clarke)@parridhlanternhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12793548943992250238noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1434302889299955261.post-13692145268848266522015-08-11T12:18:05.994+01:002015-08-11T12:18:05.994+01:00Maggie Thatcher is our current PM's HEROINE, a...Maggie Thatcher is our current PM's HEROINE, and his conservative government would love nothing better than to emulate what she did. Politics here is poll-driven though, so when they propose something bad and enough people react negatively, they retreat. But, they're chipping away at it. Labor here isn't much better. There's a widening gap between rich and poor in Oz, and there's a poverty-stricken underclass now. Our society used to be quite egalitarian, but the conservatives wrecked that. Bring on the Revolution, I say! :) Violethttp://tsundoku.menoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1434302889299955261.post-3103576578759388322015-08-10T10:21:58.929+01:002015-08-10T10:21:58.929+01:00Hi Violet, this was just before Margaret Thatcher,...Hi Violet, this was just before Margaret Thatcher, came into power & we got the total demolition of anything that didn't spout a right wing agenda, even protesting basic student rights issues got you noticed & the newspapers were full of tales of left wing organisations with secret arms caches. The we got Maggie...................@parridhlanternhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12793548943992250238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1434302889299955261.post-46098433139563774922015-08-10T09:56:33.676+01:002015-08-10T09:56:33.676+01:00Greetings from another Sociologist's Paradise!...Greetings from another Sociologist's Paradise!<br /><br />It's kind of depressing that nothing much has changed, thanks to the fucking conservatives. :)<br /><br /><br />Violethttp://tsundoku.menoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1434302889299955261.post-88799591321230169272015-08-03T15:06:19.197+01:002015-08-03T15:06:19.197+01:00Hi Brian, It is isn't it. He is still around &...Hi Brian, It is isn't it. He is still around & will be Djing on my favourite radio station in the near future - BBC 6Music. Check out the list below for a lot more of his poetry.@parridhlanternhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12793548943992250238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1434302889299955261.post-57937581571653465132015-08-03T08:29:19.678+01:002015-08-03T08:29:19.678+01:00This stuff is great. I had read The Pest before bu...This stuff is great. I had read The Pest before but otherwise I was unfamiliar with John Cooper Clarke. I wish that I had also discovered him in ny youth and connected his work to my own discovery of anti- establishment rebelliousness. <br /><br />No More Heroes is a great song.<br /><br /><br />Brian Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15139559400312336791noreply@blogger.com